By Mikel Kwaku Osei Holt
Had Taki Raton been born 200 years earlier, chances are he would have been a lieutenant in Nat Turners’ liberation army, or a scout for Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad.
Had his ancestors not been brought to America in chains, chances are Taki would have been a Griot Warrior, a tribe’s historian, responsible for maintaining the most important cultura...